Oxtail à la Cavour

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cut the oxtail into sections and set them on a bed of aromatics and blanched pork rinds.
  2. Sweat in the oven for a quarter of an hour.
  3. Moisten with a little brown stock and let it fall to a glaze.
  4. Complete the moistening with two thirds brown stock and one third white wine.
  5. Cook very gently for 3 hours and a half to 4 hours, until the flesh comes away from the bones.
  6. Move the sections to a sauté pan.
  7. Strain the cooking stock, skim it, thicken it with arrowroot and pour it over the sections.
  8. Add a proportionate quantity of small cooked mushrooms and simmer gently for a quarter of an hour.
  9. Bind a chestnut purée with egg yolks, set it in the oven as a border, and arrange the sections and garnish inside it.

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